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"This dance is called "Wolaytigna dance". In this video, the daces were mixed with Wolytigna dances and modern daces. Only the girls here actually were dancing Wolytigna but others do mix Wolytigna with modern dances. Any dances danced on the street are street dances. On this video, dance was recorded during especial events on the street of Awassa in 2009. Thanks for visiting this video site. To see actual song and dance, search under “ AW Bade" by-Mamila And Kichini ” . Good luck
-mathewsdita; 2005

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"This dance is called "Wolaytigna dance" came from Wolyta tribes in Southern Ethiopia about 400 km South of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Walaytigna dances were normally a type of dance that involves parts of your body below the waist twisting waistline and shaking butts. Also the dancers hold long stick and jump very high and pull their legs back and forth following the beat and the rhythm of the songs."
mathewsdita; 2012

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The video that mathewsdita recommended is Video #2 of this post. My thanks to that commenter for that recommendation.

I believe that the commenter who wrote that these dances look like street dances might have meant that they look like contemporary African American Rhythm & Blues/Hip Hop dances such as break dancing, Chicago footwork, and krumping. Click http://www.jambalayah.com/node/1147 for videos of various African American R&B/Hip Hop dances.

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